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Best Cutters of the Best Coast Guard!

Created by The Claw of Knowledge

The stories of the fifteen best ships in Coast Guard history, told with humor, history, and pictures of ships wearing hats. Follow the Coast Guard as it fights pirates, sinks subs, and explores new continents. Watch our cutters save lives, catch spies, and change the world. This is not the Coast Guard you know (assuming you know it at all)!

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A quarantine is great for writing...
about 6 years ago – Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:49:44 PM

Hope everyone is staying safe during this pandemic. While this is definitely a trying time, I'm taking advantage of social distancing and everything being shut down to work on Best Cutters.

Looking back, I definitely wish I'd set up this book a little differently. If I'd known how much research it would take and how many great stories I would find, I wouldn't have done fifteen ships - I would have stuck to maybe five or six. The stories of Northland, Bear, Harriet Lane, Hudson, Campbell, and Pickering would have been earth-shattering enough. But I just couldn't settle. There's too many great stories.

Just as an FYI: even if I do finish while this pandemic is still going on, I won't be shipping books if I think packing and mailing something is also going to bring you a virus. I'm also going to have to think long and hard about where to have it printed (probably not in China at this point - for a variety of reasons), which may result in some changes to the final product.

Take care of yourselves!

-Brian

Check out my article in Proceedings!
over 6 years ago – Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 07:09:53 PM

If you're interested in why I decided to write a book capturing a lot of obscure incidents from Coast Guard history, then the article I wrote for USNI is where to look. We need our history so we can explain who we are, what we do, and why we exist. It builds and ethos and a sense of purpose. It's a combination of rescuer and warfighter, but it's easy to neglect too much of one for the other.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/december/reclaim-coast-guards-military-roots

-Brian

This is why it's taking so long.
over 6 years ago – Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 07:33:56 PM

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And just like that I'm an authority on the Bear...?
over 6 years ago – Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 02:14:53 AM

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So, making a book is hard.
over 6 years ago – Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 03:05:32 AM

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